[Coco] DMP-106 Pinter sighted

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

I just wanted to mention that I had got both a DMP 105, and 106 both in boxes for sale on my site for $20, I am not sure what they are worth, but I did throw them up there, and took a shot at that price, would make good "display" units if nothing else, for I have tried to find a ribon suppler for a DMP 106 and so far have not found one that will take any other form of payment accept CC, or ship to Canada.
-Glen
www.coco.8bit-micro.com

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> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:54:57 -0500
> From: gene.heskett at verizon.net
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DMP-106 Pinter sighted
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> 
> On Wednesday 15 March 2006 00:31, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 3/15/06 12:23:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> >
> >gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:
> >>Ouch, Mike, that's a no-no, mentioning the DMP-105 and reliable in 
> >> the same sentence.  Tsk Tsk
> >
> >Well, I did use it rather lightly, but when I did run it I ran it
> > pretty hard, printing out UME scores in graphics mode.  The manual
> > warned against running graphics mode for more than a few minutes at a
> > time, fearing something would overheat, so I always kept a close
> > watch on it.  (FWIW, the brass  primary gear on the carriage stepper
> > motor of my Panasonic Epson knockoff gets  too hot to touch after a
> > few minutes of printing organ rolls, but the old bear refuses to die,
> > whew).
> >
> >So OK, I babied my DMP-105, but did push the thermal limits.  Sure it 
> > had its share of paper jams, but those were the days when even
> 
> > professionals  swore "never leave the room during a print job." 
> > --Mike K.
> 
> Unless the printer was a xerox daisy.  Absolutely the only thing that 
> can stop a 1650-ro is a broken ribbon.  It stops in its tracks, you 
> slip a new ribbon into it, push the reset button and it takes off on 
> the next character with no hint of a problem in the output of that line 
> of text.  I still have a few ribbons for it, but its out in the shed 
> moldering away in the interests of sanity, its carriage return shakes 
> the whole house.  Something like a 17" return if you have wide paper in 
> it, with a head and motor that weighs much of a pound, is done in less 
> than 110 milliseconds.  The usual 8" tractor feed is maybe 75-70 
> milliseconds, THUMP clatter clatter, THUMP.  Its a 40 cps daisy, 
> fastest one ever built. I gave $25 for it nearly 20 years ago at a ham 
> swapmeet.  Of course it doesn't do graphics well at all.  I heard of a 
> driver once that use the period to do a dmp style thing, but you would 
> of course have to seriously redefine your definition of slow.  Couple 
> of hours per page maybe?  Its interface was 1200 baud serial only in my 
> version.  My coco's ran it just fine. :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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